Topic: Fantastic discovery on enigmatic continent.
babesman
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"Thorough review of the literature on babesiosis and the comparative smear examination led us to the diagnosis of this rare and probably the first case of human babesiosis in India. "
I frankly refuse to understand this. How come 2005 they register the first case of human babesiosis in India. The continent has been notoriously swarming in parasites, malaria, every self-respecting parasite has established it presence there, but babesia.... -- 2005 ---- the first case.
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Vermont_Lymie
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Interesting find! Maybe these parasites are spreading due to climate change...or they are just beginning to find them because they are looking!
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babesman
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Protozoans are in general is a more tabooed topic than any other. Not sure why it is so.
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CaliforniaLyme
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I WILL TELL YOU WHY!!!! I KNOW WHY- FIRSTHAND!!!!
I lived in India as a kid and have been back several times. I got malaria a few times- and one of those times when I was really sick, the summer when I was 14, I was CLINICALLY DIAGNOSED with malaria because my blood test came back NEGATIVE!!! I was running major fevers non-stop deliriously and was very, very very ill-
So I will bet you ANYTHING, because clinical diagnosis of malaria IS common, that there have been gosh-knows-how-many cases of babesiosis mis-diagnosed as seronegative malaria!!!
When I was 14, the diagnosed me even though I was negative re my blood to all strains they tested me for- and treated me based on symptoms*)!!
Best wishes, Sarah
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"It is possible that some of the "malaria" in Africa is in fact babesiosis."
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Makes one consider all 500 million and that whole issue with Bill Gates Malaria foundation.
http://tinyurl.com/2zru8w Reminds me greatly the old article from The Exile alternative underground paper: "I also mentioned an opportunity. Yes, I come to you with a stick in one hand, and a carrot in the other. Should you cooperate and cease participating in the copyright-infringement holocaust against capitalism that is piracy, a world of super-nifty technological conveniences beyond your wildest fantasies will be yours. "Yes, Russia, all of this and more awaits you on the road ahead -- if, that is, you knock off the piracy. Otherwise, look for rare forms of cold-resistant malaria in your region soon. And trust me, at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, we know all about Malaria research.
Happy computing.
Bill Gates is the head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He contributed this article to The eXile."
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Truthfinder
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Sarah, I wonder about that, too. I spoke with someone in Sri Lanka about a year ago - he is a health practitioner there (not Western medicine) - and he said they don't have Lyme there..... well, like Babs, I think they probably have it and treat it, and think they are treating something else.
Babesman, thank you for confirming what I already believe: That Bill Gates should be gut-shot and left in the desert to die, preferably on an ant hill. After all these years of opportunity to get it right, he continues to supply the world with the glitch-iest, most bloated, POS software and customer support on the planet. At this point, I have to assume it's intentional.
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charlie
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....but the customer support calls get routed to India....
wake up and get a Mac.
Charlie
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